North Florida is in for a turbulent and bitter week of weather as severe thunderstorms, high winds and a days long hard freeze threat arrive in rapid succession Sunday.

The official forecast of the National Weather Service in Tallahassee calls for a chance of flurries with flake sightings emerging on social media.

The City of Tallahassee's Electric Utility neared its all-time record peak load of 633 megawatts (MW) this morning, Feb. 1, at 9 a.m., hitting 617.46 MW.

For the second time in a week, Tallahassee faces a bitter dose of double winter trouble with an Extreme Cold and Freeze warning.

As a large part of the South finds itself in the grips of a historic winter and ice storm, a large part of Florida, including Tallahassee, is bracing for its time in the icebox next week.

Florida growers were still assessing damage on Monday but one said that a normal precaution taken to protect plants backfired during this cold snap.

Some could count the flakes whizzing by. Others enjoyed a frenzy of flurries and whipped out their cameras to catch the Sunshine State unicorn.

Chances are rising that Florida will see some snow on Sunday, Jan. 18. It will be a far cry from the 2025 record snowfall that brought the most significant snowfall accumulations in decades to many locations across the Gulf Coast. But it still could bring ...